Word: debonair
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...Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea in 1940 by coming to life and joining the British Navy...
This week scholarly, debonair Dr. Wei delivered the last of the six Hewett Lectures, founded in 1923 to provide speakers on "the truths of Christianity" to Union, Andover-Newton, and Episcopal Theological Seminaries. After highlighting the background of Chinese culture, he went on in his hesitant, pleasantly gurgling English to impress his students with the importance of adapting organized Christianity to Chinese usages...
...Debonair Dancer Fred Astaire matching taps with Gene Kelly, also lightfooting with ex-Copacabana show girl Lucille Bremer through a magnificent pantomime of Limehouse Blues...
Through a series of events involving a break with her mother (who would have her dress forever in black), a repulsed advance from a friend, a trip to California and a broken pair of skis, she meets the shaggy but debonair Brent. Although he isn't the "marrying type," Miss Stanwyck gets so enthused that this doesn't phase her at all. But when her friends start talking and the jitterbugging boys get score because Mom has forgotten Pop so soon, she decides she can't go off with Brent. Brent saves the day by becoming the marrying type after...
...grey eyes. Then he drove her to his old brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, and showed her the roulette table prettily concealed behind the Victorian knickknacks. Estelle, "wearing a décolletage which . . . did a good deal for a roulette player's perspective," shortly became the principal attraction of debonair J. Bates Upham's fashionable gambling joint...